🔵 Ghislaine Maxwell Subpoenaed

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Citizen Frank
July 23, 2025

Good evening. It’s Tuesday, July 22.

A House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee voted Tuesday to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex offender and longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, as the Republicans on Capitol Hill push for the publication of more information related to Epstein’s case.

During an unrelated subcommittee hearing, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) moved to direct the panel to authorize and issue a subpoena for Maxwell to appear for a deposition, which passed by voice vote.

“Recently, Rep. Burchett sent a letter to Chairman Comer requesting a subpoena for Ghislaine Maxwell’s testimony. In response, Chairman Comer directed Rep. Burchett to introduce a motion to subpoena Ms. Maxwell for a deposition, allowing the Committee to formally consider whether to proceed,” a spokesperson for the committee said in a statement.

 
 

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., canceled votes planned for Thursday before Democrats could force another vote on releasing the remaining Epstein files—accusing them of playing “political games”—sending the House into its summer recess early as President Trump faces continued political turmoil over the failure to release information about the notorious financier.

Johnson called the Democrats’ vote to release the remaining files on the disgraced financier a “sideshow” and insisted the “the American people are best served by putting an end” to the votes.

The final votes before the recess are scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.

Former President Barack Obama denied President Donald Trump’s “bizarre allegations” that he was the Russiagate “ringleader,” in a rare public statement Tuesday evening.

Trump, earlier on Tuesday, claimed that former President Barack Obama was the “ringleader” of Russiagate, calling for him to be criminally investigated amid new claims that members of his administration allegedly “manufactured” intelligence that prompted the Trump–Russia collusion narrative.

“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,” Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush said in a statement. “But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one.”

President Donald Trump said Tuesday on Truth Social that his administration had reached a deal with Japan, one of the largest U.S. trading partners, to lower its tariff rate to 15% as part of a sweeping trade agreement.

That rate is lower than the 24% that Trump threatened Japan with on April 2 and the 25% he said he would hit Japanese imports with in a letter on July 7. Before Trump’s current term, the effective U.S. tariff rate on Japanese imports was less than 2%, according to World Bank data.

Aug. 1 is the latest deadline Trump has imposed on countries to make deals to avoid tariff rates that Trump himself had set in dozens of letters he fired off on social media. Even though that deadline had been delayed before, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday on Fox Business Network that it was a “pretty hard deadline.”

The U.S. has reached a trade deal with the Philippines following a meeting Tuesday between President Donald Trump and the country’s president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., at the White House, Trump announced on social media.

“It was a beautiful visit, and we concluded our Trade Deal, whereby The Philippines is going OPEN MARKET with the United States, and ZERO Tariffs,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

According to Trump, the U.S. will impose a 19 percent tariff on imports from the Philippines, higher than the 17 percent “reciprocal” duty the U.S. briefly imposed in April but slightly lower than the 20 percent tariff he threatened in a letter earlier this month.

The US has banned transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports at the Olympics.

The US Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) changed its eligibility rules on Monday to exclude biological men from women’s events, to comply with an executive order signed by Donald Trump.

Governing bodies of American sports federations will now have to follow suit, The New York Times reported.

Ozzy Osbourne, the lead singer of Black Sabbath, died Tuesday. He was 76.

“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” the family said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”

Osbourne recently performed his final concert with the band in Birmingham, England. The 10-hour show on July 5 was hosted by Jason Momoa, and featured performances from Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Jack Black, Steven Tyler and more.

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